SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE COUNCIL
Platform Software ARC
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PSARC Regular Meeting time: Wednesdays 10:00-1:00pm in MPK17-3507.
05-27-2009 MEETING MINUTES
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Co-Chair(s):
James Carlson: Yes
Tim Marsland: no
ATTENDEES - Members: (6 active members)
Kais Belgaied: no
Mark Carlson: Yes
Garrett D'Amore: Yes
Richard Matthews: Yes
Darren Moffat: no (on sabbatical)
Sebastien Roy: Yes
Glenn Skinner: no
Bill Sommerfeld: no (on sabbatical)
Gary Winiger: Yes (on sabbatical)
STAFF -
Asa Romberger (PM): Yes
ATTENDEES - Interns:
Frank Che no
David Chieu no
Charles Debardeleben: no
Peter Dennis: no
James Falkner: no (on sabbatical)
Daniel Hain: Yes
Michael Haines: no
Alan Hargreaves: no
Phil Harman: no
Cecilia Hu: no
Wyllys Ingersoll: no
Alec Muffett: no (on sabbatical)
Darren Reed: Yes
Dean Roehrich Yes
Ienup Sung: no
Phi Tran no
Brian Utterback: no
James Walker no
Mark Martin no (external)
Don Cragun Yes (external)
Guests:
-- GUESTS --
Jan Setje-Eilers
Richard Burridge
Tim Haley
Gerald Jelinek
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MEETING SUMMARY:
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AGENDA
10:00-10:10 Open ARC Business (use open dial in above)
10:10-10:55 Open Inception 2009/253 S10C
Submitter: Gerald Jelinek
Owner: Rick Matthews
Intern: Dean Roehrich
Exposure: open
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Case Anchors: <br>
<A HREF="#case1">S10C (2009/253)</A> <br>
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Fast Tracks:
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Case (Timeout) Exposure Title
2009/275 (05/27/09) open Amendments to pconsole fast-track
approved
2009/308 (05/20/09) open Update BIND to 9.6.1
approved
2009/312 (05/26/09) open Configurable Boot Archive Updates
derailed
return with private interface on this case
open an new case for the uadmin 2 interface
/315 (06/02/09) open Update Perl to version 5.10.x
approved
2009/317 (05/29/09) open Solaris PPP/PPPoE Updates
approved
2009/319 (06/01/09) open MII & GMII Common Layer
approved
2009/321 (06/03/09) open audiovia97
approved
Inception:
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2009/253 Packet Capture for OpenSolaris
IAM
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Name: S10C
Submitter: Gerald Jelinek
Owner: Rick Matthews
Intern: Dean Roehrich
Status: submitted
Exposure: open
SUMMARY
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Use the BrandZ infrastructure to deliver a Solaris 10 (S10) brand for
Solaris.next (S.next). This will be provided as an adoption and
compatibility aid to enable customers currently running S10 to easily
adopt S.next while also continuing to run their S10 software within
branded zones. This allows the customer to rapidly switch over to
S.next, creating a win-win situation for Sun and its customers.
ISSUES
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PSARC 2009/253: S10C
Submitter: Gerald Jelinek
Owner: Rick Matthews
Intern: Dean Roehrich
Issues for inception (05/27/2009):
ged-1 As of build 115, SXCE/OpenSolaris/Nevada contain a new audio
framework. (PSARC 2008/318 Boomer) This framework has some
potentially incompatible changes which will break certain
applications -- particularly the desktop volume control
applications.
In Boomer we decided that this compatibility was not needed,
since the desktop apps were being upgraded to the Boomer interfaces
at the same time. Is the compatibility here an issue for S10C?
If so, how will it be addressed.
jdc-1 What happens with lofs mounts in v2v? Many people are using
these to work around limitations in Zones -- for example,
adding a writable /usr/local to an otherwise sparse root
zone, adding a "global zone name" file, or sharing data
between zones.
jdc-2 What sorts of factors should the ARC consider when granting
patch/micro release binding? Are there specific areas where
updates to the branding module will be needed?
(One caution here is that some private interfaces, even those
that cross the kernel/user barrier, are changed occasionally
without ARC review. Merely requiring the ARC to note this
issue may not be sufficent to be 'safe'; restricting change
will also be necessary.)
(In the past, we've been saved by circumstance: there are very
few backports to S9 or older, so even though "patch/micro"
authorizes them, they don't happen, and haven't been
considered in the past. Without an enterprise OpenSolaris,
S10 is currently different.)
jdc-3 Meem's comments about the non-Crossbow projects (such as
Clearview) that affect whole root zones will also need to be
addressed in the commitment.
gw-1 What is the list of S10ux "Features" that are not supported?
You note zones and TX, and exclusive stacks. Are there others?
THE NEXT STEP
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Return mid summer 2009 for an update
Next Meeting:
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06/03/2009
10:00-10:10 Open ARC Business (use open dial in above)
10:10-10:55 Open Inception 2009/306 Brussels II - ipadm and libipadm
